Category: Sentinel-EBS News

  • Holt highlights summer jobs funded thru ARRA

    EAST BRUNSWICK — Congressman Rush Holt (D-12) joined Middlesex County officials and area youth Monday to highlight a summer jobs program funded through the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The program is employing students to work on a variety of projects throughout the county. Holt visited the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical High Schools’…

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    JEFF GRANIT staff Matthew Bash, 11, of Monroe, competes in the waterslide relay during the fourth annual Community Friendship Games at Geick Park in Old Bridge July 15. Kids ages 10 and 11 from summer camps in Monroe, Edison and Old Bridge competed in a day of games, with Monroe emerging victorious.

  • Spotswood in final stages of superintendent search

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD — School officials are in the final stages of their search for a new superintendent, and may have its decision by month’s end. Board of Education President Richard O’Brien said last week the interviews were completed and the negotiations process begun. The board expects to hold a special meeting…

  • Volunteers look out for the isolated elderly

    Local residents among a thinning group of advocates at nursing homes in N.J. BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer For Phil Zipser, it’s the friendships that have kept him visiting nursing homes for the past 13 years. Phil Zipser The Monroe resident spends several hours every week at a long-term facility in Englishtown, trying to reach…

  • State expected to keep funding EMT training

    May extend recertification time from three to five years BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer First aid squads and some local governing bodies have been urging Gov. Jon Corzine to leave a $4 million training fund intact so that volunteer emergency medical technicians do not have to pay for their own training. The Sayreville Borough Council…

  • Congress comes through with $500,000 for meters

    Automated remote electric, water meters coming to S.R. BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer South River will receive $500,000 from the federal government to install automated remote meters for electricity users throughout town. Congress approved the funding on Friday as part of the federal Energy and Water Appropriations Bill, despite attempts to strike specific programs included…

  • Army groups get together to reminisce

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer The third annual dinner of the Northern Chapter of the Association of the United States Army was an event where members of the U.S. Army and Indian Army could enjoy each other’s company as well as remember the ones who made the ultimate sacrifice. PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE KOCH FAMILY…

  • Annual show keeps a balanced ‘budgie’

    Area residents enjoy raising, breeding exhibition parakeets BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer Parakeet enthusiasts came to the borough from as far away as New England and Virginia to attend the 19th annual Tri-State Budgerigar Society (TSBS) show July 18. PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Pauline Domenge of Virginia and Diane Ziegman of Pennsylvania talk parakeets…

  • Judge denies E.B.’s call to dismiss lawsuit

    Stahl: Ruling marks start of lengthy legal battle BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — Round one may have gone to Toll Brothers, but according to Mayor David Stahl, the legal battle is just getting started. A state Superior Court judge recently refused a motion by East Brunswick to dismiss Toll Brothers’ lawsuit. In…